Maria Hughes 🏳️🌈
@mazzaclazza.bsky.social
50+ wellbeing and public health for B'ham LGBT. Intersectional feminist, trans ally, bi, devoted wife of @alex.drawnalism.com.
https://birminghamclarionsingers.wordpress.com/ https://workersmusic.co.uk/
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https://kingrockerfilm.com/
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Real feminists know that the overwhelming threat to ALL women is abusive cisgender men, and the main threat to women's services is lack of funding. But you wouldn't learn that from today's news or the hostile environment manufactured by the right wing and their TERF/GC cheerleaders.
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War and peace?
Not what we're told, it seems.
#TrumpWars #EvilEmpires #Venezuela #Ukraine #Nigeria #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #r4today #skynews
Not what we're told, it seems.
#TrumpWars #EvilEmpires #Venezuela #Ukraine #Nigeria #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #r4today #skynews
December 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
War and peace?
Not what we're told, it seems.
#TrumpWars #EvilEmpires #Venezuela #Ukraine #Nigeria #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #r4today #skynews
Not what we're told, it seems.
#TrumpWars #EvilEmpires #Venezuela #Ukraine #Nigeria #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #r4today #skynews
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[with increasing panic]
and Tiny Tim, who WOULD NOT die,
and Tiny Tim, who WOULD NOT die,
December 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
[with increasing panic]
and Tiny Tim, who WOULD NOT die,
and Tiny Tim, who WOULD NOT die,
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'Listen to me as I come to your neighbourhood and tell your trans siblings they are subhuman or I will use the wealth of billionaires to sue you into oblivion,' is a very late-capitalism form of free speech right.
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
'Listen to me as I come to your neighbourhood and tell your trans siblings they are subhuman or I will use the wealth of billionaires to sue you into oblivion,' is a very late-capitalism form of free speech right.
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So tired of these clowns going to universities to provoke young students and then running off like cry bullies for more media attention when the students exercise THEIR free speech rights on THEIR campus
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
So tired of these clowns going to universities to provoke young students and then running off like cry bullies for more media attention when the students exercise THEIR free speech rights on THEIR campus
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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graham linehan hasn't been 'thrown in jail for speaking out'. there's a bunch of hunger striking palestine protesters who have been tho.
December 13, 2025 at 8:35 AM
graham linehan hasn't been 'thrown in jail for speaking out'. there's a bunch of hunger striking palestine protesters who have been tho.
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This country benefits more from a poor person who’s a good person than it does from a billionaire who’s a shit.
December 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
This country benefits more from a poor person who’s a good person than it does from a billionaire who’s a shit.
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Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
December 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
That headline could have ended after the fifth word
It's hardly surprising that a "gender critical" man is campaigning against the increased success in diagnosing neurodivergent people, given that the increased success in diagnosing neurodivergent people largely involves improving the lives of women and girls
Transphobes are misogynist fash, you see
Transphobes are misogynist fash, you see
Increased rates of autism, ADHD, and other mental health conditions are evidence of decades of unmet need. Wes Streeting is missing the point, writes Rowan Humphries-Massey
December 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
That headline could have ended after the fifth word
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You can literally say what you want about trans people and the UK courts are fine with it.
This was a *child*
This was a *child*
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage to the phone of a trans activist but not guilty of harassment.
news.sky.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
You can literally say what you want about trans people and the UK courts are fine with it.
This was a *child*
This was a *child*
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Transphobes: "ban gender-affirming care for children - there's no evidence puberty blockers are safe!"
*New clinical trial assessing risks & benefits of puberty blockers announced*
Transphobes: "No - don't do that!"
Telegraph ads by #BootsUK, #Sainsburys, #O2, #Waitrose & #SkyUK
*New clinical trial assessing risks & benefits of puberty blockers announced*
Transphobes: "No - don't do that!"
Telegraph ads by #BootsUK, #Sainsburys, #O2, #Waitrose & #SkyUK
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Transphobes: "ban gender-affirming care for children - there's no evidence puberty blockers are safe!"
*New clinical trial assessing risks & benefits of puberty blockers announced*
Transphobes: "No - don't do that!"
Telegraph ads by #BootsUK, #Sainsburys, #O2, #Waitrose & #SkyUK
*New clinical trial assessing risks & benefits of puberty blockers announced*
Transphobes: "No - don't do that!"
Telegraph ads by #BootsUK, #Sainsburys, #O2, #Waitrose & #SkyUK
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Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
Is the government also going to offer them a free (very short) haircut and some complementary striped pajamas?
Govt minister Alex Norris is asked if the govt will take jewellery from people [fleeing war and persecution]. Norris says the govt won't be taking peoples wedding rings but they will seize assets.
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Is the government also going to offer them a free (very short) haircut and some complementary striped pajamas?
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My advice: if your chicken mews, check it’s not a kitten.
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
My advice: if your chicken mews, check it’s not a kitten.
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Not only does the UK government waste vast sums of money on demonising those seeking asylum, now it appears that they are complicit in quite a number needing it in the first place. Choosing to save money over a genocide, again. #r4today
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide
Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El Fasher
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Not only does the UK government waste vast sums of money on demonising those seeking asylum, now it appears that they are complicit in quite a number needing it in the first place. Choosing to save money over a genocide, again. #r4today
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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No trans woman has ever told me I don't exist. Gender critical "feminists," though, have spent the last few years telling me *how* to be a woman.
I'm more oppressed by transphobes than I am by trans people.
I'm more oppressed by transphobes than I am by trans people.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
No trans woman has ever told me I don't exist. Gender critical "feminists," though, have spent the last few years telling me *how* to be a woman.
I'm more oppressed by transphobes than I am by trans people.
I'm more oppressed by transphobes than I am by trans people.
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labour have looked at the mamdani win and the lesson they've learned is 'he uses social media' and not 'he is kind towards immigrants and trans ppl and wants to help the working class instead of corporate donors'.
November 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM
labour have looked at the mamdani win and the lesson they've learned is 'he uses social media' and not 'he is kind towards immigrants and trans ppl and wants to help the working class instead of corporate donors'.
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The news story that reveals Wes Streeting’s puberty-blocker ban to be nothing to do with “protecting children” and everything to do with Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer being deeply transphobic bigots…
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
November 2, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The news story that reveals Wes Streeting’s puberty-blocker ban to be nothing to do with “protecting children” and everything to do with Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer being deeply transphobic bigots…
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
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🔴All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/28/a...
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/28/a...
All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn't Been Telling You About
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
bylinetimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:18 AM
🔴All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/28/a...
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/28/a...
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I'm sick of hearing the economy described like an angry volcano god demanding the poor be sacrificed in tribute.
As long as we pretend it's a force of nature, we can't talk about changing it beyond silly tinkering. But it's not; it's run by people, and those people have decided they own our stuff.
As long as we pretend it's a force of nature, we can't talk about changing it beyond silly tinkering. But it's not; it's run by people, and those people have decided they own our stuff.
October 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I'm sick of hearing the economy described like an angry volcano god demanding the poor be sacrificed in tribute.
As long as we pretend it's a force of nature, we can't talk about changing it beyond silly tinkering. But it's not; it's run by people, and those people have decided they own our stuff.
As long as we pretend it's a force of nature, we can't talk about changing it beyond silly tinkering. But it's not; it's run by people, and those people have decided they own our stuff.
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One evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries consoles another evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries for not getting an award for which neither evil man is even remotely deserving.
October 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
One evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries consoles another evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries for not getting an award for which neither evil man is even remotely deserving.
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make YOUR difference!
August 15, 2025 at 6:45 AM
make YOUR difference!
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Leave my loneliness unbroken! Quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart & take thy form from off my door!
Quoth the raven, "OH! So birds aren't allowed to speak now, is that it?? This is a study! A place of words, is it not? You'd be OK if I were a budgie. Hypocrite."
Take thy beak from out my heart & take thy form from off my door!
Quoth the raven, "OH! So birds aren't allowed to speak now, is that it?? This is a study! A place of words, is it not? You'd be OK if I were a budgie. Hypocrite."
September 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Leave my loneliness unbroken! Quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart & take thy form from off my door!
Quoth the raven, "OH! So birds aren't allowed to speak now, is that it?? This is a study! A place of words, is it not? You'd be OK if I were a budgie. Hypocrite."
Take thy beak from out my heart & take thy form from off my door!
Quoth the raven, "OH! So birds aren't allowed to speak now, is that it?? This is a study! A place of words, is it not? You'd be OK if I were a budgie. Hypocrite."
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The whole "equal beliefs" thing is so disingenious, older, white, cishet (christian) people simply will enforce their beliefs over a disprivileged party, knowing full well that the power disparity will allow their belief to be imposed onto a minority, no matter how much they play the victim...
September 29, 2025 at 7:22 AM
The whole "equal beliefs" thing is so disingenious, older, white, cishet (christian) people simply will enforce their beliefs over a disprivileged party, knowing full well that the power disparity will allow their belief to be imposed onto a minority, no matter how much they play the victim...